lodgment

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: lodg=ment

CIDE DICTIONARY

lodgment, n. [Cf. F. logement. See Lodge, v.].

•  The act of lodging, or the state of being lodged.  [1913 Webster]

  "Any particle which is of size enough to make a lodgment afterwards in the small arteries."  [1913 Webster]
•  A lodging place; a room.  [1913 Webster]
•  An accumulation or collection of something deposited in a place or remaining at rest.  [1913 Webster]
•  The occupation and holding of a position, as by a besieging party; an instrument thrown up in a captured position; as, to effect a lodgment.  [1913 Webster]

ROGET THESAURUS

lodgment

Location

N location, localization, lodgment, deposition, reposition, stowage, package, collocation, packing, lading, establishment, settlement, installation, fixation, insertion, habitat, environment, surroundings (situation), circumjacence, anchorage, mooring, encampment, plantation, colony, settlement, cantonment, colonization, domestication, situation, habitation, cohabitation, a local habitation and a name, endenization, naturalization, placed, situate, posited, ensconced, imbedded, embosomed, rooted, domesticated, vested in, unremoved, moored, at anchor.